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Ukraine is offering foreign fighters higher pay and longer fixed-term contracts to fill dangerous front-line infantry and assault roles, a move soldiers say could help address one of Kyiv’s biggest manpower problems.However, foreign fighters told Business Insider that the effort’s success will depend on whether Ukraine can persuade recruits to…

Ukraine is repurposing reconnaissance and attack drones to move supplies to the front lines because sending soldiers on these missions has become increasingly deadly.Bringing supplies like water and ammunition to soldiers near the front lines is critical for militaries to stay in the fight. But those routes are now so…

Ukraine’s soldiers are wearing what they call “tactical Crocs” when they’re off the front lines.Dmytro Zhluktenko, a Ukrainian soldier who recently transitioned from his role as a drone operator to a drone lessons analyst with Ukraine’s 413th Unmanned Systems Regiment “RAID,” described the gear he wore and carried in a…